wildblueyonder I guess its just impossible to wrap my head around what people think is good or not good. I will often consult the IMDB rating of a movie before watching it, and I find that in the 5-7 range there is a lot of difference between what I like and what other people like. So in that range I often scan reviews.Can't for the life of me see what would appeal to anyone about this movie, how enough people could have even an above average take on it for it to rate that high.Its terrible. Its shot documentary style, its a bunch of interviews. I think you could realistically watch it and believe its not fiction - hence my rating of 2 and not 1. Other than that not even interesting. Avoid.

realtalkrealfolks I'm a huge horror fan. The first horror movie I saw was A Nightmare on Elm Street when I was thirteen years old, and since then, I was hooked. It's probably my favorite movie genre, and one of my favorite genres in all forms of entertainment. I feel like I've "seen it all", so to speak, in all the various sub-genres of horror. Mainstream, indie, sci-fi, psychological, monster, black and white classics, found footage, etc. You name it, I've probably seen it. But I've never seen anything quite like Lake Mungo.It's not really the style of the movie, per se, that was so different, because I've seen faux documentary style horror movies before. But the things that happen in this one...it's been a long time since a horror film made me feel this way.When I sat down to watch it, all I knew was the basic plot. A teenage girl drowns, and afterwards her family starts experiencing some strange events. I thought it was going to be your typical haunted house ghost story, but it was so much more than that. The movie sets up this fascinating mystery, with multiple twists and reveals, and it keeps you guessing the entire time. Eventually though, it all leads up to one scene in particular. Basically, the entire movie builds up to this moment, and what happens is so unexpected and horrifying, I couldn't believe it. There were no cheap jump scares here. No "aha! gotcha!" moments. The scene earned every second of the fear it made me feel. I had to force myself not to cover my eyes.This is one of the most tense, uneasy atmospheres I've experienced while watching any movie, not just horror. One of the best slows burns, with a great payoff. I was thinking about this for days after I watched it. Absolutely unforgettable.

tm-juli This Australian picture is without a doubt a scary flick. It is a difficult movie to sell, because it doesn't work in conventional horror movie ethics like the popular horror movies nowadays, which make bank in 2017. And also "Paranormal Activity" is an easy comparison, because of its found footage approach, "Lake Mungo" is pretty different in what it's trying to accomplish. "Lake Mungo" depicts grief. Grief of parents, trying to figure out if or why her daughter suddenly died. Grief of the older brother, who's stuck with his mourning mom and dad. The scariness doesn't (only) lie within the supernatural, but mostly within the effect, such tragedies have on the family members. But the ones who like their ghost stories won't be disappointed, for there is some creepy home-video footage and very unsettling pixelated imagery. The movie doesn't tell you everything, so your mind will have to do the work, what makes the end product a lot more scary than over-explaining the background story or the mythology of something. I am someone who is easily frightened by a found footage movie. I love "The Blair Witch Project" and some "Paranormal Activity"-movies (especially the first one) and "Unfriended" and "Rec", because you are engaged in those movies in a very different way, than in conventional horror flicks. And "Lake Mungo" is a perfect addition to the found footage movies, who use the technique the right way. It uses all kinds of amateur formats, from camcorder to mobile-phone-camera and perfectly uses the low definition to create some of the most unsettling images you've seen. Sadly the audio suffers from the absolute dedication to only amateur and documentary filmmaking. The music and the background sound is always louder as the people speaking, which is not very pleasant and pretty disturbing (which should be a good thing in a horror movie). Also you really have to be in the mood for this movie and ready to let you creep out by low definition photographs and the unsettling meaning behind them, instead of demon faces and loud jump scares. If not, you could be annoyed or bored.But if you can ignore the very weak audio mixing and you can get into the experience, you're in for a treat. A very slow-burn horror story, with some very terrifying themes and haunting images.

meesho 20 This movie is very well made. Atmosphere, nuances, elements; all carefully considered to create realism and still have a psychological horror/thriller twist. I believe the closure the family gets at the end is from finding all possible evidence and none of it leading to them getting rid of their daughter/sister. It should be unsettling to the family that she was being warned by paranormal means and was taken away that way. They don't believe, then they believe because of the son playing tricks, then don't believe again, then at the end believe but it's OK (it was scary when they thought they were being haunted but not when it's haunting your family member to death). The mothers reaction to seeing her daughter in the room during the last psychic session and the daughters reaction to that is also revealing of some dark secret between them. The psychic notices this but is bound by not being able to prove his findings that the family is guilty; that's why that scene turns cold fast. When the family has exaggerated responses to people not telling them certain things or showing them; especially that those things didn't really help with the case says a lot. I can spend much time typing why I see that her family are the killers but re-watch it with that in mind. You'll see what I mean.